Top movies with an artistic approach that have slice of history

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an artistic approach and slice of history! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an artistic approach and slice of history, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The East (2021)

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.

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2021-08-13 | War / Drama

Cast

Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari

Rating

rating icon 5.98
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    room for improvement
  2. Ranked #2 for
    historical
  3. Ranked #3 for
    accurate

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2 Tesla (2020)

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.

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2020-08-14 | History / Drama

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson

Rating

rating icon 5.88
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    super-charging
  2. Ranked #1 for
    directorial genius
  3. Ranked #1 for
    true genius

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3 La Llorona (2019)

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz

Rating

rating icon 6.457
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slow and plodding
  2. Ranked #1 for
    amalgamate
  3. Ranked #1 for
    haunting

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4 Radioactive (2020)

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

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2020-03-11 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley

Rating

rating icon 6.614
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    quick shot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    scientific genius
  3. Ranked #2 for
    directorial achievement

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5 The Two Popes (2019)

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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2019-11-27 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    splendid
  2. Ranked #1 for
    humanized
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for Catholic contemplation

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6 Josep (2020)

February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.

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2020-09-30 | Animation / Drama

Cast

Sergi López, Alba Pujol

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    director with artistic integrity
  2. Ranked #1 for
    somewhat limited acting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dour subject

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7 True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

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2019-11-23 | Crime / Drama

Cast

George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult

Rating

rating icon 5.954
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    clean-shaven
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beaten
  3. Ranked #1 for
    well-groomed

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8 Harriet (2019)

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

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2019-11-01 | Drama / History

Cast

Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.

Rating

rating icon 7.332
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ingenuine directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    accurate

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9 Riotsville, USA (2022)

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.

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2022-09-16 | Documentary / History

Cast

Charlene Modeste

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    elaborately staged
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lynching
  3. Ranked #3 for
    intermixed plot

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10 Persuasion (2022)

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.

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2022-07-01 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis

Rating

rating icon 6.01
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deviating from book
  2. Ranked #1 for
    faithful to book
  3. Ranked #1 for
    like Pride & Prejudice

Trailer

Persuasion trailer
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